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Carnival 105th: The Over-Scheduled Carnival Kid

The first rule of Carnival is to publicize the Carnival. The second rule is to remember that next week the Carnival comes home to The Education Wonks. The deadline for submissions is: 9:00 PM (Eastern) 6:00 PM (Pacific) Tuesday, February 13. Submissions may be sent to: owlshome [at] earthlink [dot] net . Contributers may also use Blog Carnival's handy submission form: http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_5.html

Now, on to this week's Carnival, #105: The Over-Scheduled Carnival Kid. We've all heard a lot about over-worked, over-scheduled kids, and we're here to tell you: it's all true. The Carnival Kid has more classes, meetings, and extracurriculars than most folks can imagine. Let's take a look.

Things don't start out too well for you -- you know you're to have to turn in some late work to Paul (AKA "Stausser"). Doh!

Your buddy David is surfing the internet on his laptop and shows you a site about how to be global.

Guidance Office

Time to start thinking about the future. Mr. Paulson talks about how to pay for college and a counselor you do not recognize slips you a brochure detailing the cost breakdown for graduate school studies. Yikes.